There is a mountain of data being created every day, and all that data has to be processed. But something not often thought about is where all that data gets stored. Luckily, EMC is paving the way to change how we see storage and how it works.

Shashwat Srivastav, VP of Engineering at EMC, talked with John Furrier (@furrier) and Brian Gracely (@bgracely), cohosts of theCUBE, from the SiliconANGLE Media team, during the DockerCon 2016 event about data storage and container strategy. 

Data, data everywhere

EMC is working on the increasingly tumultuous task of figuring out how to get old data and new data in the same place. As the years pass and technology makes more leaps into the future, it becomes harder to access, process and group old data with the new. By creating a solution for container strategy, or a means to organize and compile all that information, EMC hopes to streamline work for companies and individuals alike.

The Docker software containerization platform would work in tandem with existing software to bring all the moving parts together in one smoother-running application. “Customers are moving to consolidated infrastructure environments,” and Docker, Inc. will lead that movement, said Srivastav.

Crunching the numbers

EMC hopes to bring value to its customers by eliminating wasted and overlooked data. Its container strategy will allow programmers to input data once and access it from multiple hardware locations. EMC even makes the interface easy to use so that individuals can enact projects on an enterprise scale.

With more access to older data comes a need for greater analytics, which EMC is ready to handle. It provides a range of analytic tools but is looking to make them even more detailed and extensive. The consumer’s ability to do everything from one application is what EMC keeps in mind as it extends its storage capabilities and adds new features.

The integration of storage is the next big thing, and it’s picking up a lot of momentum. Along with that momentum EMC hopes to see data centers “acting and communicating in a fluid manner,” according to Srivastav.

Watch the full interview below, and be sure to check out more of SiliconANGLE and theCUBE’s coverage of the DockerCon 2016. Plus, join in on the conversation by CrowdChatting live with theCUBE hosts.

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